San Antonio College Library

A tribute to the winners of the 1901, 1925, 1939 and 1966 Nobel Prizes for literature (plus an announcement of Sartre declining the 1964 prize) includes four of their works, plus poetry selections, presentation addresses, acceptance speeches, and a survey of each author's life and works.

We've all got our favourite YouTubers, right? But everyone with a channel has this Pennsylvian lady, Nellie Bly, to thank. You could say she was the world's first blogger.

Nellie Bly was "the best reporter in America," wrote the New York Evening Journal on the occasion of her death in 1922. One of the most rousing characters of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Nellie Bly was a pioneer of investigative journalism. She feigned insanity and got herself committed to a lunatic asylum to expose its horrid conditions. She circled the globe faster than any live or fictional soul. She designed, manufactured,...

A portrait of nineteenth-century actress Ellen Ternan, the woman who was the mistress of Charles Dickens, describing her secret relationship with the author.